Drag and Drop Word Document in Windows Explorer Corrupts File

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Aminna1

I'm running Win Vista Home Premium 64-bit and Office 2007.

I created a Word07 doc from scratch (no paste in from 00-03, etc), edited,
file>save>closed then alt>tabbed to windows explorer and created a new folder
and drag & dropped the word doc to it.

Explorer froze during drag and after 30 minutes of freeze I hard booted.
Word was open when I drag & dropped so I assumed the freeze must be the
result of Word not completely closing the doc out after File>Close.

Browsing to the source folder in Explorer showed the file in its original
folder, no new copy in destination folder. Double clicking the file from
Explorer froze Explorer.

Start>Word>browse to file>Open worked and allowed opening the file and
Save>As to new destination.

The Saved up/Recovered version of the file was edited and saved up four
times with no problems.

With all apps closed (except antivirus) went to archive the old versions to
a sub-folder today. Opened Win Explorer, browsed to & selected versions 1-3
of the document, dragged to a sub-folder and Explorer hangs. Hard booted
after 20 minutes assuming it was the original bugged version causing the
freeze.

When I browse to Start>Programs>Office> the shortcut for Word displays a
'white box' icon and hovering over it shows a popup saying "shortcut modified
today's date." Selecting it to open word does nothing. Word does not open
from start.

Anyone else see anything like this?
 

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